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- Elisabeth Elliot99◆ Many want to be the favorites of their confessors, and thus they are consumed by a thousand envies and disquietudes. Embarrassment forbids them from relating their sins clearly, lest their reputation diminish in their confessor's eyes. They confess their sins in the most favorable light so as to appear better than they actually are, and thus they approach the confessional to excuse themselves rather than accuse themselves. Sometimes they confess the evil things they do to a different confessor so that their own confessor might think they commit no sins at all. Therefore, in their desire to appear holy, they enjoy relating their good behavior to their confessor, and in such careful terms that these good deeds appear greater than they actually are. It would be more humble of them, as we will point out later, to make light of the good they do and to wish that no one, neither their confessor nor anybody else, should consider it of any importance at all.
- Juan de la Cruz98◆ Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don't find the consolation they want in spiritual things. Many never have enough of hearing counsels, or learning spiritual maxims, or keeping them and reading books about them. They spend more time in these than in striving after mortification and the perfection of the interior poverty to which they are obliged.
- Juan de la Cruz98◆ All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.
- Richard Rohr98◆ If we know our original blessing, we can easily handle our original sin. If we rest in a previous dignity, we can bear insults effortlessly. If you really know your name is on some eternal list, you can let go of the irritations on the small lists of time. Ultimate security allows you to suffer small insecurity without tremendous effort. If you are tethered at some center point, it is amazing how far out you can fly and not get lost.
- Richard Rohr98◆ Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.
- Richard Rohr98◆ You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.
- Richard Rohr98◆ There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.
- Rich Mullins98◆ Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to accept others and their culture instead of always carrying along our own country's assumptions and calling them the Gospel.
- Richard Rohr98◆ Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.
- Richard Rohr98◆ Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely give men mandates, signposts, scaffolding and appealing images that tend to create religious identity and boundaries, but from the outside.
- Richard Rohr98◆ You can unlock spiritual things only from within.
- Richard Rohr98◆ Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.
- Richard Rohr98◆ True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.
- Richard Rohr98◆ When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.
- Richard Rohr98
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